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Total Massage by Gill Tree (£21.00)Publisher: MQ — 2004Binding: Hardback [ISBN: 1840725826]Condition: Very Good. Badly bruised at tail of spine, result of a drop I'd guess, otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: The only massage book you will ever need: An introduction to the history and principles of massage; Spiral bound for easy reference during training; Over 80 simple massage techniques for the whole body; More than 300 step-by-step colour photographs; 14 massage programs including self massage, baby massage, massage for stress relief and massage for the elderly. 192pp. Index. Size: 4to Medium (11½" x 9" approx.)Tags: vasoconstriction reflexotherapy immobilization self-awareness vasodilatation self-treatment self-massage work-related constipation aromatherapy hydrotherapy hypertension superficial hypotension therapeutic circulation acupressure acupuncture coordinated circulatory reflexology equilibrium whole-body effleurage fibrositis completing petrissage percussion stretching pummelling rheumatism mobilizing techniques relaxation tapotement programmes endocrine breathing diagnosis diaphragm autonomic lymphatic pregnancy menstrual pummeling expansion inversion locked-in scoliosis anatomica emotional P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Edited by Kenneth Rexroth (£18.00)Publisher: Wildwood House — 1981Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0704504219]Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Gently faded at the spine with light reading creases. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.Description: First in this edition. [First: Houghton Mifflin, 1977] From the cover: “Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek island of Leucadia in 1850. After a career in journalism in the United States, Hearn travelled to Japan in 1890 to write articles about Japanese life for Harper’s Magazine. He remained there for the rest of his life, taking a Japanese wife (by whom he had three sons and a daughter) and assuming Japanese citizenship in 1895. He died in 1904, and was buried after Buddhist ceremonies in Zoshigaya cemetery in northern Tokyo. This collection of his writings on Buddhism was taken from the bulk of his writings by Kenneth Rexroth. The organization of the selections reflects Hearn’s chronological progress from a rendering of the simple tales and stories illustrative of the common folk’s beliefs in Buddhism to the more abstract philosophic doctrines of the Mahayana Buddhist sects in Japan. Of the many writers who have commented upon Buddhism in Japan, none has stood the test of time so well as Lafcadio Hearn.”Notes: Size: C Format (8½" x 5¼"). In the Wildwood House Rediscoveries series. 303 pages. Tags: abandoning abiding accepting accumulating actions actual adverse advice ageing alertness amitabha amitayus anger appearances arrogance artificial asanga ascertaining aspects aspirational aspiring atisha's attachment attainments attention awakened awareness behold beings belief benefits beseeching beyond blame blessings bodhi bodhichitta bodies brahma breath breathing buddha buddhadharma buddhahood buddha's buddhism buddhist cessation chandra changing changkya P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Pagan King by Edison Marshall (£18.00)Publisher: Frederick Muller — 1960Binding: Hardback First Edition. Condition: Good. Faded at the spine. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Pages lightly age-tanned, more heavily at the blanks. Description: From the cover: “The Pagan King of this stirring, imaginative novel by Edison Marshall is the most famous king in the lore of the Western world. Although his name is a household word, breathing romance and adventure of long ago, little evidence can be found that he ever really lived. The author believes that he did live, that he was born in what is now Wales, that he fought and conquered rival kings, became King of Britain, and made a mark on his times that will stand as long as songs are sung and tales are told.

Research into his era dismisses at once the vast cloak of myth that conceals what must have been his real character. There were no more giants, dragons, witches, and miraculous happenings then than there are now. But there were what must have been real events, stirring adventure, desperate strife, men of violence and women of great beauty, to give birth to the vast body of legend.

The age and the scene were wonderfully adapted to the rise of a magnificent pagan king. Britain was beset with painted Picts on the North, the wild men of Eire on the West, and the horn-hatted Saxon pirates on the East and South. It seemed, after the Roman soldiers had left Britain to her fate, that law had ceased to be, and men would be ever less in the land, and the wild beasts more.

Some strong hand helped turn back the tide of barbarism. Perhaps it was that of a barbarian king. In this novel the reader may again meet Elain of the Lake, but as she might have been instead of the bloodless lady of myth; Vivain, the unforgettable Temptress; Modred, who in myth stands for unmitigated evil but who in this novel is a complex, fascinating person; and a character hardly less in stature than the king’s — Merdin, known in legend as Merlin, the king-maker, and the last of the great Druids.”Notes: Size: 8" x 5¼". Turquoise boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 380 pages. Tags: fiction historical famous king wales britain picts eire elain the lake merlin druids edison marshall first editions firsts printings 1st P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Click Image or Pop Window?About Yoga: The Complete Philosophy by Harvey Day (£16.00)Publisher: Thorsons Publishers — 1951Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a nick to the head of the upper panel and at the foot of the lower. Tanning to the blanks. Pages lightly age-tanned. Description: From the cover: “The author does not claim that this is the complete text-book on Yoga for he maintains that the Yoga Philosophy can only be mastered by long and arduous practice. But, however, a great deal of Yoga can be adapted to suit a civilised way of living and if practised regularly it will clear your mind, increase your powers of concentration and determination and help you to overcome worry and fear — it can make you fit, both mentally and physically.

This absorbing and thought-provoking book includes chapters on — Some Yoga Miracles; What is Yoga; Yoga Hygiene; Yoga and Food; Yoga Breathing; The Value of Sound Sleep; Yoga and the Emotions; Vibration and Colour; Electricity — the Source of Life.”Notes: Size: 7½" x 5". Red boards with Black titling to the Spine. 160 pages. Tags: yoga introduction some miracles what hygiene and food breathing the secret eternal youth value sound sleep emotions vibrations colour electricity source life harvey day first editions firsts printings 1st P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?Tamasin's Kitchen Classics by Tamasin Day-Lewis (£15.50)Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson — 2006Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0297844288]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and top corners with the expected associated chafing to the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Illustrated with colour photographs. From the cover: “What is a classic? Do we even know any more? This book is full of the dishes Tamasin is cooking now. Her classics are all about taking the best ingredients, the dishes she and her family know and love, and breathing new life into them.

Bread and butter pudding becomes gingerbread and butter: in go some pears and a whiff of stem ginger. She swaps classic lemon curd for vibrant raspberry, blackcurrant and redcurrant curd, turning them into tarts, ice creams and steamed sponge puddings. Classic old-fashioned dumplings are revived with a hit of horseradish, a sprinkle of parsley, or a hint of English mustard.

There are New World dishes and Old World dishes: a perfectly simple black-and-white risotto balsamico, a warming New England clam chowder, an autumnal, musky morel and wild boar stew.

When the cupboard is all but bare Tamasin whizzes up little crab custards spiked with sherry, Parmesan and cayenne pepper. In the fruitless winter months, she invents a grainy dried fig and hazelnut ice cream and stirs last year’s homemade Seville orange marmalade into a stupendous creamy cake.